What a week at the Woodstock Open Horse Show this year! Arrived on Thursday afternoon, complete with camper (full of supplies and food), horse trailer (complete with horse supplies for 5 days), a husband, two college students and a friend. Hatches were battened down by 6:00 PM or so and we settled in for an evening of relaxing and hanging out at the barn.
Friday AM- feed horses and head for Providence to move Jen into her "luxury condominium" that she will call a dorm from now till next May. What a beautiful place.lucky girl! Back to Woodstock Fairgrounds (with a short side trip to one of Jen's favorite stores: Tractor Supply). Cool (and I mean cool) evening of watching horses.
Saturday 6:00 AM- feed horses and the girls got ready for their first class scheduled for 8:00 AM! Jen placed 8th out of 37 riders! Great class. Great weather all day, lots of classes and lots of laughs. Midnite: watching the last of the jumping classes. Jen also placed 3rd out of 17 horses in a jumping class. Let's see......bed around 1 or 2:00 AM?
Sunday 6:00 AM- off for another day of classes. Another great day all around...................by 11:00 PM, watching jumping classes and every one is a bit tired..............
Monday- 8:00 AM.......decision made not to ride today as riders and horses are whipped and school is creeping up fast (Tuesday 7:00 AM).....quiet day.packing and heading home.
Jen was off to work and then to her new "Dorm" and another year of college!!
Wonderful week-end--lots of fun and laughs............great end to the summer!
September 20, 2009
